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Narrative of a Journey Round the World During ... 1841 and 1842
Narrative of a Journey Round the World During 1841 and 1842 Author:George Simpson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. FROM RED RIVER SETTLEMENT TO EDMONTON. Red River Settlement, position, origin, condition -- Departure from Red River Settlement -- Face of country -- Salt lake -- Fort Ellice -- Qu'appelle River, crank canoes -- Wolverine Knoll, native legend -- Native lodges -- Rain and swamps -- Dog Knoll -- Salt lakes -- Native lodge, hieroglyphics -- Halt in heavy rain -- Wanderings of Tom Taylor -- Bow River -- Indian story -- War in the plains -- Carlton -- The Saskatchewan -- Picturesque country -- Crees -- Scarcity of water -- Red River emigrants, love of native spot -- Buffalo hunt -- Turtle River -- Scarcity of water -- Fort Pitt -- Miseries of a native lodge -- Alarm of Blackfeet -- Effects of hail -- Extreme vicissitudes -- Oddity of native names -- Edmonton -- Native tribes -- Visitors of quality. Having safely arrived i at the Red River of Lake Winipeg -- as narrated in the preceding chapter -- I may, previous to the continuation of my journey, take the opportunity of here laying before my reader a brief account of the British Establishment now settled on the banks of that stream. In the year 1811, the Hudson's Bay Company ceded to the late Earl of Selkirk, in full right, a large portion of their territories in North America. The tract of land so granted was, in every respect, Well calculated for the purposes of agriculture; and it was hoped that, together with the cultivation of the soil, successful measures might eventually be adopted to promote the civilization of the Indian tribes in that quarter. The grant in question extended chiefly along the plains, watered by the Assiniboiue and ...« less